or the word yeard for example...BTW it is a word...and a damn good one.
"Did you know the word "yard" and the word "guard" were originally the same word, spelled "yeard" and meaning, roughly, "protected place"? "Yard" is the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation and "guard" the Viking pronunciation, but they gradually shifted in meaning so that the north of England, where they used the Viking pronunciation, took it more in its "protected" meaning, and the south took it more to mean a piece of land. "